Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}. For years, Microsoft’s AI story was really OpenAI’s story. At Build 2026, it felt like the tech giant was finally writing its own path. With seven new in-house models, an OpenClaw-based agent, agent-first hardware, and more, Microsoft stopped looking like…

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AI is changing our world, but the stories of who build it often get lost in the noise. Behind the headlines and hype, a group of women are solving AI’s fundamental challenges – despite working in an industry persisently impacted by gender inequality. Women make up just 22% of AI professionals worldwide and only 12%…

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Artificial intelligence has made enormous strides in the past few years – with the introduction of a wide range of AI tools changing the landscape of how we assess data and operate within online spaces forever.  This page ranks the 50 best universities to study AI around the world, based on scope, prestige, and the…

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Standardising grid data through SAP S/4HANA allows E.ON to modernise infrastructure and execute AI deployments. The utility giant manages infrastructure across three distinct domains: energy grids, customer solutions, and energy infrastructure solutions. Maintaining operations across this scope requires continuous capital expenditure on IT hardware and software maintenance. Leadership initially questioned the business case supporting large-scale…

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Microsoft’s Majorana 2 quantum chiparrived this week, with numbers that are genuinely difficult to contextualise: qubits 1,000 times more reliable than those of the first generation models, a mean qubit lifetime of 20 seconds against an industry norm measured in microseconds, and a revised roadmap targeting a commercially scalable quantum computer by 2029. Behind those…

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Walmart has reportedly begun limiting employees’ use of an internal AI assistant called Code Puppy after demands placed on the LLM backing the tool were higher than expected. Employees of Walmart were encouraged to use Code Puppy without any stricture or stipulations as to the limits of use, but Walmart is now assigning employees a…

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Insider Brief Ouster and FieldAI have partnered to combine FieldAI’s robotics foundation models with Ouster’s Rev8 lidar technology to improve how autonomous robots perceive and navigate complex industrial environments. The companies said the collaboration is focused on enabling robots to operate in unstructured settings without pre-mapped routes, supporting infrastructure or significant modifications to the worksite.…

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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has filed the first state-led lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, alleging the company ignored internal and external safety warnings while prioritising competitive dominance over user protection. The 83-page complaint links ChatGPT to a mass shooting at Florida State University, suicides, and other violent incidents, claiming OpenAI misrepresented the safety of…

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang opened Computex in Taipei by unveiling the RTX Spark, a one-petaflop “superchip” designed to run AI agents locally and securely on Windows PCs. ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft Surface, and MSI will ship RTX Spark-powered machines this autumn, with Acer and Gigabyte to follow. The chip includes secure sandboxes co-developed with…

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Alphabet has announced plans to raise $80 billion through a stock sale to fund AI infrastructure expansion, including a $10 billion tranche sold directly to Berkshire Hathaway. The Google parent said AI demand from enterprises and consumers is currently exceeding available supply, making the capital raise necessary to scale foundational compute capacity. CEO Sundar Pichai…

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